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'Wind is Changing!' | John Michael Greer
The "Wodwoses" have been described as a variant of the Green man, seen here on a medieval misericord in Ludlow. The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men which were counted amongst the Edain, who ...
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A Place For Books | John Michael Greer
Dec. 4, 2019 (Eco.Sophia.net) -- As one of my readers pointed out last week -- tip of the hat to Patricia Mathews -- we’ve now embarked on the most sacred season of the American year, the season of ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part Three: A Mortal Splendor | John Michael Greer
Nov. 13, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Some of my critics like to insist that I never admit that I’m wrong. Those readers who have been following me for any length of time know that this isn’t true, but ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part Two: 'Facts are the Enemies of Truth' | John Michael Greer
Nov. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week, in Part One of this post, we explored the strange way that many people these days seem to have lost the ability to think clearly, or at all, about certain ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part One: The Flight from Reason | John Michael Greer
Oct. 30, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For quite some time now I’ve been mulling over how to talk about one of the strangest features of our era -- the way that certain very simple kinds of reasoning have ...
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Heating Up The Political Climate | John Michael Greer
Oct. 16, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Yes, we need to talk about climate change again, and it’s probably necessary to start with a point I’ve made on this blog several times already: anthropogenic ...
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Waiting for the Next Panic | John Michael Greer
Oct. 2, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I first started blogging more than 13 years ago, the main focus of my online essays was peak oil. It was a good time to discuss such things. The price of crude ...
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The Fall of the Chosen Ones | John Michael Greer
Sept 4, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I’ve long since stopped trying to second-guess where to look for insights into the crisis of our time and the first stirrings of the future ahead. I read a lot of news ...
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The Dream of a Managed Society | John Michael Greer
Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina.August 21, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- My essay here two weeks ...
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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel
July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But ...
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The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer
Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, ...
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